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25/11/18Two new perfumes

Villa M: Inspired by Curzio Malaparte’s astonishing cliff top home on the island of Capri, Villa M situates the wearer on the sun drenched terrace watching the sea and sky kiss at an azure horizon. Flanked at its back by the island’s lush vegetation and cooled by the salted spray of the sea below, Villa M dreams at the meeting point between land, sky and sea.

Notes: ambergris, cedar, cyclamen, hay, mimosa, pink pepper, seaweed

Cuadra: Invoking the brilliantly hued modernist masterpiece of Mexican architect Luis Barragan: Cuadra San Cristobal, a horse ranch built around geometric reflecting pools and the fountains which feed them. Cuadra is at once exotic and intimate, open yet embracing. Juxtaposing the architect’s hot signature colours with the vast reflected skies of Mexico, Cuadra is passion contained and refined.

22/06/16We have lift-off

04/03/16 Paul Schütze Perfume - launch imminent

After creating olfactory elements for installations and objects, and after a barrage of requests for personal fragrance, Paul Schütze Perfume will launch a trio of wearable olfactory artworks later this month. Each describes a moment recalled by the artist for its unique particularity. One, the bloom of damaged trees after a storm, one a cloud of sublime sounds transmuted to perfume and one the chance union of fleeting aromas in the artist's Paris studio. All three will be available through a variety of stockists to be announced soon.

06/06/15 A new chapter.

This April, Paul Schütze Perfume will be launched. Three eau de parfums forming an olfactory triptych depicting three distinct, located moments.

04/04/15Art And Olfaction Awards Finalist

Delighted to report that In Libro De Tenebris, the perfume I designed for last year's SilentSurface exhibition at Maggs Gallery has made the finals in the experimental category of the 2015 Art And Olfaction Awards.

25/02/14In Libro De Tenebris- a perfumed book

Produced specially for the Silent Surface exhibition at Maggs Bros. Gallery, In Libro De Tenebris is an entirely black book each page of which has been scented with a perfume of the same name. Produced in an edition of 20 signed and numbered copies only it is available here.

21/02/14 Papera photo book

Paper is a full colour, casebound book with dust jacket. There are 85 pages of photographs.It is limited to an edition of 40 signed and numbered copies.

31/01/14 Silent Surface Exhibition

08/04/13Laughing Hands - Tape Works 1981-1982

Vinyl On Demand have released a very beautiful 4LP box-set of rare Laughing Hands recordings from the 1980s. The material within was only available previously on limited cassette format. The box also includes a specially commissioned DVD featuring two video works made to accompany the music from the 1982 release Nights. Available here.

“Listening back over these recordings, teased skillfully from the few remaining cassettes by VOD’s engineers I am forced to wonder whether perhaps, as artists we spend our time re-discovering solutions to the same creative problems over and over. I hear things in these pieces (many of which I had entirely forgotten) that offer solutions to problems I am dealing with in my own works today. Suddenly I realize I knew the answers thirty years ago! I guess if it is true that artists remake the same work over and over then perhaps we are doomed to confront the same creative dilemmas repeatedly having inexplicably mislaid the effective solutions of our own manufacture.” Paul Schütze, Paris, 2011

04/07/12new photo works

Silent Engine IX 2012

15/02/12 Pop-up Exhibition, prints-sound-scent.

Twilight Science editions will present a Pop-up exhibition from the 12th -17th of March 2012 in London: Eighteen editioned prints, each designed to accompany a different musical work. The prints will be shown with a perpetual mix of said music and a scent diffusion courtesy of Editions De Parfums Frederic Malle. Works will be available to order as signed, numbered archival ink-jet prints. Venue details and dates below:

04/12/11 NAPE - New Musical Project

NAPE is a new musical collaboration with a shifting set of contributors. Taking its inspiration as much from the language of Math and Death Metal as the ever present foundations of jazz and electronica, NAPE explores a more violent, guitar-driven sonic territory than previous projects. We hope this is the first of many broadcasts from what we see as music's most exciting frontier. Indeed the second album is now well underway and due around April 2012.NAPE's first album The Void Yukio is now available exclusively as a Hi Resolution download from Twilight Science.

Since making sound works available on iTunes we have been bombarded with complaints about the poor quality of MP3 for this kind of audio and requests for Hi Resolution Audio versions. The almost daily changes in our industry have challenged all of us to find some balance between irresistible market mutations (mostly fruit-based) and the audio experience we all strive to achieve and share with listeners. Solving the vexing problem of how to deliver this has occupied us for some time.

Our solution is Twilight Science:Twilight Science is an imprint for sound, music and DVD editions initiated by artist Paul Schütze. We will progressively publish all back catalogue, new projects and collaborations. These will include works by Phantom City, NAPE, Schütze-Hopkins and others. We are delighted now to offer the recordings in full Lossless download form using BandCamp. Those of you not slaves to iTunes will find the free music player VLC works beautifully for lossless playback and that Toast can be used to burn hard copies for a cloudless posterity. You will find on entering the Bandcamp links that various versions are offered. including MP3 and FLAC. We urge you to avail yourselves of the highest quality and to enjoy the music as it was intended.

Third Site was released in 1999 by Ryko Disc. The installation work of the same name featured in Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery London in the year 2000. The music has only been performed twice and this release documents the second of those concerts. Recorded during the Impact Festival in Utrecht in 1999, the line-up here is the same as that on the original release with only Thomas Köner's voice being flown in from tape. We have had to edit around some of the more exuberant contributions from the audience but this is essentially as heard on the night. We are pleased to make this recording available as a free download here on the site.

09/11/2009 25 years of sound - online print editions

Celebrating 25 years since the release of Deus Ex Machina, the first solo soundwork released by Paul Schütze, we have editioned a series of 18 prints selected from the newly designed online cover art. The prints are available online exclusively from the print shophere at paulschutze.com. Shown above are New Maps Of Hell l & ll.

21/07/2009 two new releases available online

Two new works are now available on iTunes. The first is a collaboration between Paul Schütze and Andrew Hulme of O Yuki Conjugate. Soundworks 01 is the first in a series of releases documenting their ongoing sound design for film and installation works. The second new work combines live recordings of two concerts given in Tokyo and Osaka respectively by Paul Schütze and Simon Hopkins into one continuous piece.

27/05/2009 complete recorded works available online

The recorded works of Paul Schütze are now available online through itunes. Many of these recordings were both expensive and difficult to find when originally released so we are pleased to offer them now at uniform rates regardless of your location. For those of you unhappy with the quality of MP3s we are still looking for a reliable high resolution alternative.

Each of these reissues has new graphics the licenses for the originals having expired. We will be making new releases available as they are completed. We are also preparing some rare, unreleased archival material for release over the next twelve months.

We will continue periodically to post free downloads on this site.

01/02/09matter and memory in madrid

An exhibition of recent photographs opens at Estiarte in Madrid. Estiarte will also be showing two lightboxes at ARCO which coincides with the opening of this show. From February the 13th. MAP.

01/02/09island universe in madrid

Josiah McElheny's Island Universe project opens in Madrid at the Reina Sofia Museum. The group of five sculptural works is installed in the Palacio de Cristal situated in nearby Parque del Retiro while the film collaboration with Paul Schütze is installed on the fourth floor of the Reina Sophia itself. Exhibition runs from the 28th of January to the 30th of March 2009.

14/10/08new sound-works at white cube - hoxton square

Island Universe - Photo: Todd-White Art Photography

Artist Josiah McElheny's Island Universe at White Cube in Hoxton from the 14th of October to the 15th of November 2008. The exhibition features a film for which Paul Schütze has written a suit of five specially commissioned sound-works structured to illustrate the complex physics underpinning this ambitious project.

03/07/08twilight science installed

22/04/08catalogue publication

21/04/08new site launched

Finally a complete update and redesign! We are still tweaking and improving elements of this iteration so please bear with us. Music downloads and video should follow soon.

20/04/08twilight science

An exhibition of new photographs and lightboxes opens at Alan Cristea Gallery London on May 14th. The photographs explore states of transition both of materiality and perception and demonstrate the mutability of familiar environments and materials.

A fully-illustrated colour catalogue with an introduction by philosopher John Gray will be available from the gallery.

18/04/08no past t-shirt

20/03/08new sound work

After eight years of planning and gestation, several visits to Roden Crater and conversations with James Turrell, this piece commissioned by Michael Hue-Williams of Albion London has been completed. With contributions recorded in Tokyo, London and New York, the work was assembled and mixed in Dolby Surround and runs at just over five hours in length. We will announce locations at which it may be heard through this site as they are known.